Laravel deployment tutorials, server management guides, and hosting best practices from the Deploynix team.
A team of 8 spent 60 hours a week maintaining Kubernetes before moving to Docker Compose. For Laravel apps, the case against k8s is even stronger. Here's the boring architecture that actually works, and the rare cases where k8s earns its keep.
LLM calls run 30-120 seconds and break every default your Laravel server ships with. Queue and Horizon configuration, Nginx streaming, end-to-end timeout budgets, retry safety, and cost tracking for AI workloads in production.
In May 2026, 700+ compromised Laravel-Lang package versions shipped a credential stealer through Composer. Here's how to harden your Laravel deploy pipeline: --no-scripts, allow-plugins, lockfile discipline, scoped deploy keys, and a full incident checklist.
37signals saved ~$10M leaving AWS, and 86% of CIOs plan to pull workloads back. Here's what your EC2 + RDS + NAT + egress bill really buys a Laravel app, the VPS architecture that replaces it, and a step-by-step migration playbook with a safe DNS cutover.
A hands-on guide to running FrankenPHP with Laravel Octane on a plain Ubuntu VPS: installation, a production systemd unit, the Nginx handoff, worker mode gotchas, and the cases where PHP-FPM is still the right call.
The honest guide to running SQLite in production for Laravel: the WAL config that matters, backups that don't corrupt, Litestream replication, the atomic-deploy gotcha, and the signals that it's time to move to MySQL or Postgres.
A production playbook for upgrading to Laravel 13 without downtime: PHP pre-flight checks, Composer strategy, additive migrations, atomic symlink deploys, worker restarts, and a rollback plan that actually works.
A step-by-step runbook for moving a Laravel app off Railway, Render, or Fly.io onto your own VPS: env export, database migration, cutover, rollback plan, and a before/after cost comparison.
Forge 2.0 shipped zero-downtime deploys by default, a $6/mo Laravel VPS, and Organizations. Nine months on, here's an honest practitioner's review: what genuinely improved, where the fine print bites, and how it reshapes the Forge-alternative decision.
Laravel Cloud's new $5 Starter tier with scale-to-zero hibernation sounds like it kills the $5 VPS. We run the honest 12-month cost math for a real Laravel app, queues, scheduler, database and all, and show exactly where each option wins.
Coolify vs Dokploy vs CapRover vs Deploynix, compared for 2026 — an honest, data-backed breakdown of GitHub adoption, Docker vs native models, pricing, and which self-hosted PaaS fits your stack, plus where a managed Laravel-first control plane changes the math.
Laravel Telescope, Pulse, and Nightwatch aren't competitors — they solve different problems. A 2026 guide to what each does, current Nightwatch pricing, and which to use.
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